Reading texts in the natural image is a hot topic, due to its wide practical applications, , robot navigation [1]}, image caption [2]}, image retrieval [3]}, etc.Scene text detection, as the prerequisite of reading text system, has attracted increasing attention in the computer vision community over the past few years.However, due to the uneven illumination, the perspective distortion and the complex backgrounds in natural scenes, they result in the difficulties of detecting scene texts.Moreover, the specific characteristics of texts (, various scales, diverse aspect ratios, different fonts, arbitrary-shape layouts, etc.) also increase the challenge of the detection.
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